Buffalo Bills to interview Hue Jackson for head coach job

The Cincinnati Bengals can’t win a playoff game, and they also can’t stop their coordinators from becoming head coaches.

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After their loss to the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday afternoon, the Cincinnati Bengals are looking at another offseason where a coordinator is poached off their staff and made into a head coach. Last year Marvin Lewis lost both Mike Zimmer and Jay Gruden to head coaching jobs in Minnesota and Washington while this offseason he risks losing Hue Jackson as well.

According to Albert Breer from NFL Network, the Buffalo Bills have already submitted a request to interview Hue Jackson and are working on making that happen this week.

Jackson has been a head coach before in the NFL, as his tenure with the Oakland Raiders was ended before many believe it could develop into something special. He’s more than proved himself in Cincinnati by drafting a pair of running backs in Giovani Bernard and Jeremy Hill and using them to bolster the Bengals offense. Jay Gruden deserves partial credit for Bernard, but Hill was all Jackson.

The success of the Bengals offense was a surprise in 2014, as Andy Dalton continues to be nothing more than a medicore quarterback while the weapons around him do most of the job for him. TO his credit, A.J. Green is a top target, but then again a lot of that falls on how great A.J. Green is more than how great Dalton is.

It’s almost as though Hue Jackson is going to get a head coaching job not only for how he helped boost the Bengals offense but also by how he refused to allow Andy Dalton to torch it all. Somehow the Bengals made it back to the postseason despite losing both coordinators last season and that’s a true testament to how stout Marvin Lewis’ staff has been throughout the years.

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